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BREAKING NEWS FROM THE BBC! (Original Post) MrScorpio Oct 2015 OP
Accidents are frequent at the BBC. hunter Oct 2015 #1
I was only four years old at the time MrScorpio Oct 2015 #2
Our family had a Very Fine Adventure in Franco's Spain when I was a teen. hunter Oct 2015 #3

hunter

(38,264 posts)
1. Accidents are frequent at the BBC.
Mon Oct 19, 2015, 12:19 PM
Oct 2015

As with many larger organizations...

Palomares nuclear crash: US agrees Spanish coast clean-up

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On 17 January 1966, a US B-52 bomber carrying four 1.5 megaton bombs collided with a refuelling tanker some 31,000 feet above Palomares on Spain's Mediterranean coast

The tanker crew and three people on board the bomber were killed

One bomb equipped with a parachute landed intact

Two bombs hit the ground at high speed, scattering plutonium

A fourth bomb landed five miles off shore and was later recovered by USS Petrel

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34569614

hunter

(38,264 posts)
3. Our family had a Very Fine Adventure in Franco's Spain when I was a teen.
Mon Oct 19, 2015, 12:51 PM
Oct 2015

My mom has a habit of speaking her mind, even in very inappropriate circumstances to very pompous little men of authority, so my dad got nervous and we had to pack everything into the car and leave for France in the middle of the night.

The Spanish border guards on the twisty two lane road we took out of Spain didn't come out to greet us. My dad chose not to disturb them.

The French border guard asked my dad if he had any cigarettes and seemed very sad that we didn't, but he let us pass.

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